The Corner Clinic Teen Parent Programme serves
teenage parents, predominantly teenage mothers,
medically, socially and psychologically, who come
to primary care for perinatal health visits during
pregnancy and after the birth of their baby. Using
standard screening tools and clinical interviews
tapping into problems and psychosocial risk, we
aim for the early detection of teenage mothers’
mental illness with the goal of initiating early
multimodal intervention. It seems crucial to reconstitute
mental well-being in the teenage mother and
to decrease the psychosocial risk, while at the same
time educating about safe and sensitive parenting.
All these measures, in turn, reduce the likelihood of
dysfunctional parenting and promote that children
are raised in safe, nurturing and stimulating environments,
leading to securely attached, healthy
and adapted children. To achieve this goal, we
provide, in addition to comprehensive screening
of the teenage parent for mental, physical and social
healthcare needs, a sophisticated set of screenings